Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.

The dogmatism of science has become a new orthodoxy, disseminated by the Media and a State educational system with a thoroughness and subtlety far exceeding anything of the kind achieved by the Inquisition; to the point that to believe today in a miraculous happening like the Virgin Birth is to appear a kind of imbecile.

The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality but at the same time the most intellectually resisted fact.

I agree with... actually it was [Joseph] Stalin who said that [Winston Churchill] he was a man who changed the history of the world and I think, if he had not been there in 1940, it might very well have been the case that we would have collapsed like France, and I shall honor him always for that.

In the beginning was the Lie and the Lie was made news and dwelt among us, graceless and false.

Sex is the mysticism of a materialistic society - in the beginning was the Flesh, and the Flesh became Word... [it has] its own mysteries - this is my birth [control] pill; swallow it in remembrance of me!

In the cycle of a great civilization, the artist begins as priest, and ends as a clown or buffoon.